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participated in the
2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic ...
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. With 28 gold, 19 silver, and 25 bronze medals, the Canadian team placed third in the medal rankings, behind
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Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...
player and three-time Paralympic gold medallist
Chantal Benoit Chantal Benoit (born October 1, 1960) is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player. She is considered among the best female wheelchair basketball players of all time. Benoit played in the Canadian woman's wheelchair basketball team since 1984, and ...
was the delegation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Chantal Petitclerc Chantal Petitclerc (born December 15, 1969) is a Canadian wheelchair racer and a Senator from Quebec. Early life At the age of 13, Petitclerc lost the use of both legs in an accident when at a friend's farm, a heavy barn door fell on her, fra ...
ties the 5 gold medal record at a single Games for a Canadian, tying Stéphanie Dixon, who set the record at the
2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...
.Vancouver Sun
"Woolstencroft wins fifth gold medal"
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Medallists


Competitors and results by event


Athletics


Men's track events


Men's field events


Women's track events


Women's field events


Boccia


Individual events


Pairs and team events


Cycling


Road


Track


Equestrian


Individual


Mixed team


Judo


Powerlifting


Sailing


Mixed 2.4mR class

* Bruce Miller - 9th.


Mixed Sonar class

* Brian MacDonald and Brian Mackie - 7th.


Shooting


Men


Women


Swimming


Men


Women


Wheelchair basketball


Men's team

The team consisted of 12 basketball players. * Patrick Anderson *
Jaimie Borisoff Jaimie is an alternative spelling of Jamie or Jaime and may refer to: People * Jaimie Alexander (born 1984), American actress * Jaimie Cloud, American sustainability educator and advocate * Jaimie Dawson (born 1969), badminton player from Canada ...
* Brad Bowden *
David Durepos David "Dave" Durepos (born July 14, 1968) is a Canadian retired wheelchair basketball player. He is married to fellow Paralympian Sabrina Pettinicchi. As a member of Team Canada, Durepos competed in five Paralympic Games where he won 3 gold med ...
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* Travis Gaertner * Roy Henderson *
Joey Johnson Joey Johnson (born 26 July 1975) is a professional Canadian wheelchair basketball player. He has competed in several Paralympics and World Championships and was also the first disabled athlete to be inducted in Manitoba's Basketball Hall of Fame ...
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Richard Peter Richard Peter (10 May 1895 – 3 October 1977) was a German press photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photographs of Dresden just after the end of the Second World War. Life Richard Peter was born and raised in Klein Je ...
* Chris Stoutenburg


Women's team

The team consisted of 12 basketball players. * Marni Abbott-Peter *
Chantal Benoit Chantal Benoit (born October 1, 1960) is a Canadian wheelchair basketball player. She is considered among the best female wheelchair basketball players of all time. Benoit played in the Canadian woman's wheelchair basketball team since 1984, and ...
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Tracey Ferguson Tracey Ferguson is a Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. She has won several gold medals including at three different Paralympic Games. Early life Tracey Ferguson was born on September 7, 1974, in Holland Landing, Ontario. She was ...
* Shira Golden * Jennifer Krempien *
Linda Kutrowski Linda Kutrowski is a former Canadian athlete. She won three Paralympic gold medals and one bronze in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commem ...
* Arley McNeney *
Kendra Ohama Kendra Ohama (January 6, 1965) is a Canadian retired wheelchair basketball player. As a member of Team Canada, she won three gold medals and one bronze during the Paralympic Games. Early life Ohama was born in Brooks, Alberta on January 6, 1965 ...
* Danielle Peers * Sabrina Pettinicchi *
Lori Radke Lori Radke (born 1967) is a Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. She has won two gold medals and one bronze at three different Paralympic Games. Early life Radke was born in Wetaskiwin, but grew up in Ponoka, Alberta where she attend ...
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Karla Tritten Karla Tritten (born April 17, 1978) is a Canadian Paralympic Games, Paralympic wheelchair basketball player and physical education teacher at the Balwin Junior High School, a department of Victoria School of the Arts. , she resides in Sturgeon Co ...


Wheelchair rugby

* * Semi-final game * ** Gold medal final


Wheelchair tennis


Media coverage


See also

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Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics Canada competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. Canadian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for the ...
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Canada at the Paralympics Canada has participated eleven times in the Summer Paralympic Games and in all Winter Paralympic Games. They first competed at the Summer Games in 1968 and the Winter Games in 1976. Milestones At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Stephanie Dixon ...


References

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
Paralympics The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...